HIS BROKEN BODY LAURENT CLEENEWERCK HIS BROKEN BODY Understanding and Healing the Schism Between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches (An Orthodox Perspective) Published by Euclid University Consortium Press IOSD Euclid: 1250 24th St. NW, Suite 300 - Washington DC 20037, USA Europe: MC-Square Building, Lambroekstraat 5A - 1831 Diegem-Brussels, Belgium www.euclidconsortium.org His Broken Body, Understanding and Healing the Schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Cleenewerck, Laurent Copyright © 2007 by Laurent Cleenewerck. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 978-0-6151-8361-9 Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication Recommendations 1. Orthodox Eastern Church – Relations – Catholic Church., 2. Catholic Church – Relations – Orthodox Eastern Church, 3. Orthodox Eastern Church – Doctrines, 4. Catholic Church – Doctrines, 5. Popes - Primacy I. Cleenewerck, Laurent. Note: This book is based on the doctoral thesis ‘Holographic Ecclesiology’ presented at the Université Libre Internationale, Brussels, Belgium For my wife, Irene † In Memoriam Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann Protopresbyter John Meyendorff Protopresbyter Sergius Bulgakov St. Priest-Martyr Pavel Florensky Memory Eternal! Nothing so provokes God's anger as the division of the Church. Yes, though we may have accomplished ten thousand glorious acts, yet shall we, if we cut to pieces the fullness of the Church, suffer punishment no less dreadful than those who mangled His body. St. John Chrysostom